Norfolk Heritage Explorer

Lecture by Richard Hoggett, Norfolk County Council, Community Archaeologist. To mark the 70th anniversary of the 'Friendly Invasion', this illustrated talk uses photographs from the collections of the Norfolk Air Photo Library to illustrate the county's wartime landscape. Subjects to be ... read more

This year the Winds of Change Diaries project has been run as a part of the Cromer and Sheringham Arts Festival. A series of sketchbooks have been left in three locations along the Norfolk coast for members of the public to record their memories in. The Diaries have been placed at the Beach... read more

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At the beginning of September Docking Heritage Group undertook a community dig. The aim of the project was to further our understanding of how the village developed, and to add more information to the Historic Environment Record. Members of Docking Heritage Group excavating a test... read more

On Monday the community archaeology team at Norfolk Historic Environment Service ran an activity at St Benet’s Abbey as part of a school visit to the area. St Benet’s was a Benedictine Abbey which was endowed in 1020 CE by King Cnut. It was built on an earlier Saxon site, and is the only... read more

This year Norfolk Historic Environment Service has been hosting two Community Archaeology Training Placements funded by the Council for British Archaeology. These placements last for a year and are intended to provide the trainees with the skills they need to work with volunteers and run their... read more